In Nottingham, theatre bosses (buoyed, perhaps, by Forest's recent run of victories) are feeling optimistic. Despite losing £750,000 of council funding over three years, the Nottingham Post reports that the Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall feel well-placed to thrive. Over in the west midlands, two Birmingham music organisations are being "urged to share facilities and staff" in order to survive, says the Birmingham Post.

The idea that somehow art should be cut in the same way as everything is just completely and utterly indefensible. It is as if somehow we are having to be buried as well as being told that we are poor and starving.